BLS transaction SocketTimeoutException

I have a transaction which has a number of reads/writes to 2 Oracle databases. It has been running OK for a number of months but now it has stopped writing to one of the Oracle databases. When I execute the transaction within the Logic Editor I get the message: Error executing transaction: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out. By playing around with the transaction it appears that executing the SQL Query on this Oracle database is what is causing the timeout. However, running the query in the Query Template test mode works fine! Also, other applications running on this database are running OK. What could be causing this problem?
Thanks,
John.

Jeremy,
The timeout hasn't been changed; it is the default 60 seconds. However, when I ran a test of the query in the Template Editor it completed in a matter of a few seconds so I am very surprised that it would timeout in 60 seconds in the transaction. The strange thing is that the transaction has started working again as of yesterday without making any changes! It had also worked OK for the previous couple of months; I have never encountered this timeout error before. What would account for it giving this error all of a sudden and then failing like this for a number of days before righting itself? There have been no problems with other applications accessing this database or the server this database is on. One other thing I had a problem with while this timeout was occurring was that the xMII Schedule Editor failed to open (I reported it in this forum as Empty values in Oracle result sets not returned as empty in Query templates). This has also righted itself!! Is there any way we can check back to see what might have caused these problems and also prevent them happening in the future?
Regards,
John.

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